This doesn't have item buying, but you unlock card packs and equip them to your character before matches. As they progress, you unlock them in any order you wish to improve your character, with earned currency/XP.

I mean it's a unique and cool game, but yes, marred by the same fucking bugs for month. Bugs that literally erase progress, kill your dinosaurs, lose your items... One patch added a new dinosaur recently, the Allosaurus, which had them RUNNING THROUGH PEOPLE'S WALLS and destroying half of their bases/tamed dinosaurs. Still happening as far as I know. If you aren't on a private server, you are basically screwed. Even then, it's an admin's choice if it's worth replacing stuff or not.. I personally went and replaced over a dozen player bases worth of stuff only to have it keep happening. Had to completely disable this dinosaur to fix it.

Then one of the mods we had completely broke dinosaurs after a hotfix from the devs, permanently, so... not great...

Oh, and there's the admin server logs, the logs that tell the admins everything that goes on in the server (chat, what happened to someone's dinosaur or base, etc) which crashes the server if it's on, since they put it out. Multiple attempts to ask them to fix it have resulted in them directly saying (the devs, mind you, not just some random people.. this is on their own forums) "just turn it off, it's broken". Not even a "we'll fix it" or "we acknowledge this".

/rant over

Have such a history with this game after hosting a server for it, for the last year.. Argh.

I like it. Albeit I'm enjoying the more goofy aspects, like throwing refigerators at people, but it's a great game. Only thing that bothers me is the weird lipsyncing that doesn't seem to line up all the time, even at 60+ FPS.

To think it's plagued by even worse issues than I figured it'd be... I figured it'd be shallow, but this is just laughable. At least make sure the game runs when you release it, after raising so much hype. @_@